Κυνῶν πόλις - Stephanos Ethnika

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city

Κυνῶν πόλις, Αἰγυπτία πόλις. ὁ οἰκῶν Κυνοπολίτης. ἐν ᾗ πόλει ὁ Ἄνουβις τιμᾶται.

Kynon polis, 'City of Dogs': an Egyptian city. The inhabitant is a 'Kynopolites'. In this city Anoubis is honoured.

Entry	#275
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 394.20
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	13
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Entity	Details
Κυνοπολις	Cynopolis (city of the dogs) · place
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place · corrected · Q11768
Κυνοπολίτης	Cynopolite (inhabitant of Cynopolis) · people
Ἄνουβις	Anubis · deity
Κυνῶν πόλις	place · explicit · wikidata: Q3008796 · seeded_headword_alignment

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	'City of dogs' (Cynopolis: kyn- from κύων 'dog' + πόλις 'city')
Morphological Composition	'The inhabitant [is called] Kynopolites' (demonym formed from Κυνοπολι- + -της)
Folk Etymology Narrative	'In which city Anubis is honored' (implying the city's name is associated with the cult of the jackal-headed god Anubis)

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.